Mechanical Engineer
The Leidos Innovations Center has an immediate opening for a Mechanical Engineer to work in our La Jolla or Vista offices in San Diego, CA.
This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your experience to develop and produce fluidics equipment, advanced nuclear detection, radiography equipment, chemical and biological sensing instruments, and satellite sensor systems.
Emphasis is on research and development with activities ranging from support of early scientific research to transitioning technology to production.
Primary Responsibilities :
- Collaborate in engineering product development, testing, and scientific research activities.
- Contribute to design reviews and present designs for review.
- With general guidance from scientists, work independently and use judgement to perform engineering tasks with uncertain and evolving requirements.
- Use judgment to perform technical troubleshooting and diagnosis of failed equipment and support root cause analysis.
- Perform data analysis and contribute to technical reports.
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Bioengineering with 4+ years of relevant experience. Master’s degree is preferred with 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Must be a US Citizen and have the ability to obtain a Secret security clearance.
- Experience working with cross-functional R&D development teams.
- Experience working with and designing small fluidics systems.
- Relevant working experience with Solidworks CAD software.
- Able to build BOM’s and assembly work instructions.
- Well-organized, reliable, attention to detail, and have demonstrated personal initiative with the ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.
- Good oral / written communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to coordinate work with others.
- Motivated self-starter able to work under minimal supervision, and an entrepreneurial approach to roles and responsibilities.
- Experience with definition, setup, characterization, and testing of complex systems, including design of experiments, reliability life tests, and root cause analysis.
- 0-20% travel to customer sites as required.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Masters’ degree or higher preferred.
- Experience with GD&T per ASME Y14.5
- Current active Secret security clearance or higher.
- Experience leading small teams on projects or tasks.
- Relevant Experience in more than one of the following areas : Mechanism Design, Integration / Packaging of electrical and mechanical components, fluidics design & component selection, heat transfer & thermodynamics design and analysis, design for manufacturing, shock and vibration analysis, design of precision motion control systems, tailoring of requirements and test planning per MIL-STD-810, system engineering, technical project planning, control systems, and / or biotechnology.
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Pay Range :
Pay Range $78,000.00 - $120,000.00 - $162,000.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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